On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 2:09 PM John Rose <[email protected]> wrote: > > Confabulation Theory that's interesting thanks for posting I heard about that > long ago. I'm always researching how thinking works across species even > insects and what makes human cognition different.
Insect brains have no long term memory. Nor are they capable of reinforcement learning, a prerequisite for qualia or feelings of pain or pleasure. Everything they know was encoded in their DNA at birth, so their only learning mechanism is evolution. Insect genome sizes are around 500 Mb, or 1/6 the size of the human genome. Bees need about 10 bits of short term memory to encode the position of pollen to communicate back to their hive. Human short term memory is about 100 bits of symbolic information. -- -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T72ec30e7be059220-M211801195b8dc1a388677402 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
